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12/23/17 4:38 PM |
Edward Bear | | Hundred Acre Wood | | | |
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Good points there, but the question remains--who do we pray to? Here's a quote from the story, which was from the American Psychological Association's study on stress."Do people consider prayer or attending church not necessarily something that manages stress?” asked Lynn Bufka, a psychologist with the APA’s Stress in America team. “We don’t know.” Her question is confused, prayer is not the same thing as attending church. She might as well have said, prayer or drinking coffee and watching squirrels eat from the bird feeder that I just refilled. No wonder she then says, 'We don't know' If you start with the wrong premises, you cannot get anywhere. I would add another question, can you pray if you don't believe in God? Paul seemed to say no, that those who pray to God must believe he exists. Yet many people today think of God as only some impersonal higher power. On that level, you can say that your local government is a higher power, your state government is a higher power, and the federal government is a higher power. Shall we pray to them? As they say in the old mystery novels, the APA in dealing with prayer is getting things all 'bollixed up' |
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12/7/17 2:41 PM |
Edward Bear | | Hundred Acre Wood | | | |
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Hurrah for Trump finally allowing what President Clinton in 1995 signed into law, the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem by 1999. It reminds me of the "TPS" status of many immigrants, like the Central Americans who have been living in this country since Hurricane Mitch. Anyone remember what year that was? As to the size of the Czech Republic, it doesn't matter much, since a country's embassy is still an embassy, and represents that country. Would someone propose different levels of membership in the United Nations--depending on their physical size or population. If that went into effect, everyone at the United Nations would speak Chinese! El Salvador is also a very tiny country, but ask the residents in suburban Washington DC the impact that their illegal immigrants have had, like the case of one of them being murdered in Wheaton Regional Park and buried there. Check it out on the Washington Post website. Then post a comment, El Salavador is a tiny country, why worry about it? |
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12/6/17 5:13 PM |
Edward Bear | | Hundred Acre Wood | | | |
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Sorry, John, but I don't know but a bit from the news today--that the Prime Minister was pleased with the move. I would be more interested in what the Jewish reaction here in the US is, realizing of course, the truth of that old joke, put 3 Jews in a room, ask them a question, and you will get 4 answers after a while. Many Jews are so full of hatred towards President Trump that they would take the opposite side just to spite him. There is a phenomenon here of 'self-hating Jews' that I have heard about from Jewish talk show hosts Michael Savage and Mark Levin, (and read about in a book by an Israeli comic), but I don't understand it. I have read that a third of Jews in the US do not believe in God, so that might be the root of the problem. How can you follow their traditions and not believe in God? Yet they do it. I guess it's the same as seeing many churches filled for candlelight services on Dec. 24. People are there because it's a tradition to go before they open their presents or have a big family dinner. |
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12/2/17 5:31 PM |
Edward Bear | | Hundred Acre Wood | | | |
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First, I found it nearly impossible to read the article with all the background noise from the unrelated videos attached to it. But I did note one interesting fact, that a lower percentage (33) of over-65 adults are Christian than in the 50 to 64 age group (37). I would have predicted a number higher than 40 or 50. I remember George Barna put out a book a while about, "Revolution" about how the institutional model of the church was dying out. He wasn't exactly crying over it, nor calling people to come back to it. I think a Reformed author, last name DeYoung, may have put out a book or podcast to call people back. Why has this happened? When Christians turned over the education of their children to the state schools, and the religious education to the church, despite the Bible saying it is their job to do it. I would like Barna to study Jews in America to see how they are doing along these lines. My feeling is that they do pretty good in raising up their children to be Jewish: for example, marrying fellow Jews is still important to them. (at the same time, I have read that a good one-third of Jews in the US do not believe in God, so what are we talking about--a religion without God? sounds like just ceremonies, rituals, and traditions to me. If Barna thinks that goi |
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